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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
So... whats the verdict, did Pompeo break the law?
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Beats me, but if so, arrest him.
Bry, you're one of the very few reasonable liberals here. Let me ask you this. Put all of Trumps MANY MANY moral failings aside for a moment (like democrats did when Bill Clinton was president), all of them. Focus just on his policy, and the effect of those policies.
Have his policies been an abject disaster?
lowest unemployment in 50 years (not all his doing obviously, but somewhat related to his tax cuts and decreased regs)
lowest minority unemployment ever
stock market records
gave ISIS some serious bloody noses
lowered taxes for 60% of us (I have 3 kids, so made out like a bandit as he expanded childcare tax credits)
criminal justice reform, which disproportionately helps blacks (something Obama/Biden had 8 years to do, and chose not to)
last night at the RNC, the was a lobster fisherman from Maine, a dairy farmer form the Midwest, a Honduran immigrant business owner, a mother with a special needs son...who all told stories of how Trumps policies specifically helped them. Are they all lying? And this is just the nonpartisan stuff. I like the judges he's picking, I like the way he stands up for the faithful and the unborn, but we can out that aside. Just focus on the stuff that's more or less bipartisan.
Of course there's more to Trump. I give him a big fat F for allowing these dangerous riots to continue (I'm sure he's doing it for political reasons, which is disgusting). He didn't build a wall. If you care about the environment as I know you and I both do, he doesn't get good grades there. And of course we could fill the Internet with accurate lists of his character flaws.
But on policy? Before covid, how could you refute my conviction that most people were better off thanks to his first 3 years?